Ian Davila is a Director of Adversary Emulation with eight years of experience building threat-informed defenses and operationalizing MITRE ATT&CK across industry and research settings. A Carnegie Mellon Information Security graduate and former MITRE engineer, he has led red-team style emulation programs and contributed directly to the ATT&CK website as a full‑stack developer, improving UI and data models that power a globally referenced threat framework. Based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ian blends hands-on engineering, research experience in parallel computing and SDN testbeds, and leadership to translate adversary tradecraft into repeatable security programs. He’s known for pragmatic delivery—adding practical enhancements like versioning and metadata to widely used open resources—while advocating measurable, threat-informed defense at scale.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Security, Master of Science - MS Information Security at Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 260 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian contributed to the user interface and the underlying data models of the MITRE ATT&CK Website. Their work involved addressing initial state issues within the cloud matrix page by modifying the navigation JavaScript code and navigation templates. They also implemented the addition of created and last modified dates to object pages by modifying relevant Python modules and HTML templates. Furthermore, the user worked on adding website version information and ATT&CK version number to the website footer.
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